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Mixolydian

Mixolydian

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Adjective

Mixolydian (not comparable)

  1. (music) designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
      It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian
    Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode.

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